Mar 11, 2025 · MITI MURHESA, Congo (AP) — Hospitals across eastern Congo that were once at the forefront of the country’s response to the mpox outbreak are facing a setback in detecting the disease and offering treatment following the advance of Rwanda-backed rebels in the region.. The mpox global health emergency is worsening as the fighting between the M23 rebel group and Congolese troops escalates in ...

Sep 19, 2024 · Health authorities have struggled to contain outbreaks of mpox in Congo, a huge central African country where a myriad of existing problems makes stemming the spread particularly hard.

Jun 14, 2024 · From 1 January to 30 May 2024, the Republic of Congo reported 19 confirmed and 10 probable mpox cases across four departments: Cuvette (14 cases), Likouala (two cases), Plateaux (two cases), and Pointe-Noire (one case).

Aug 26, 2024 · Children in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo are worst-affected by the current outbreak of mpox, which has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the...

Aug 7, 2024 · The Republic of the Congo (ROC), which borders DRC to the west, declared a clade I mpox outbreak in April 2024, and there have been confirmed cases in the Central African Republic (CAR). While clade I mpox is endemic in ROC and CAR, the epidemiologic pattern of recent cases suggests a possible link to DRC.

Nov 23, 2023 · Mpox is an infectious disease caused by monkeypox virus (MPXV), which is endemic in densely forested regions of West, Central and East Africa, particularly in the northern and central regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Mar 11, 2025 · All four individuals traveled from areas experiencing clade I mpox transmission and sought medical care for mpox symptoms after arriving in the U.S. CDC has assessed the risk to the United States posed by the clade I mpox outbreak in Central and Eastern Africa.

Oct 3, 2024 · An upsurge of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its spread to neighbouring countries was declared a public health emergency of international concern on 14 August 2024. Mpox is a viral disease caused by an orthopoxvirus.

KINSHASA/DAKAR, 16 August 2024 – Thousands of children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighbouring countries are at significant risk of contracting the mpox virus as cases of a new, more deadly, variant continue to surge, UNICEF warned today.

During 2023, a clade I outbreak of mpox disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo resulted in 14,626 suspected cases being reported, with 654 associated deaths, making for a case-fatality rate of 4.5%.